Closing Threads

[thepixiesrock]

I have recieved warnings in the past and that has got me to stop "spamming" and I stoped.

 

 

Although I didn't think I was really spamming, any ways, the point is that they do send people warnings, but I don't know if that stops people or if they send them to everyone that is spamming.

[EnderAndrew]

Surprisingly I have never been warned. Though when I tangent, I do try to swing topics back on track.

[Baley]

I have never been warned.

 

Way Off Topic posts don't count for post count. Perhaps they can make it so the Moderation folder doesn't add post count either.

 

That would be a tad silly. A lot of thread are archived there.

 

I would prefer deleted post not to be sent to Moderation but deleted directly.

[thepixiesrock]

I have never been warned.

 

 

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You are like ten times worse than me when it comes to spam. I think Fionavar has been keeping his eye on me lately just because one time I turned one of my threads into a party thread...

 

Edit: Oh, and one time I got warned because there was a hokey topic, and I said "Hokey is gay." so I was sent a warning to not post like that again.

[Musopticon?]

I have been warned; but not because of spam or my hateful, rasistic and annoying demeanor towards other members. That would be just wrong.

[LadyCrimson]

Not to be an old party pooper but every single forum I've ever been on, from large to small, ends up with a thread like this one. Or multiple threads.

There's no real solution to a lot of these things. Sometimes it's because of limitations to the forum software. Sometimes it's because forum-modding is not a public democracy.

 

There's a lot of well made points and debates here, and indeed, one or two that I'd not be sorry if they would/could be implemented - but the bottom line is that if one has really specific ideas about how they want a forum to be run/handled, one can create their own forum.

[Musopticon?]

 

Very specific ideas? I thought these were just common suggestions.

[Darth Flatus]

I got warned too!! :D for saying a naughty word :">

[BattleCookiee]

I think draakh kimera's sig could be a quarter of the size and still clear and legible.  I'm surprised the boards have a strict limit for avatar size but not for sig size, but then you can turn the sigs off.

 

There are regulations to Sig Sizes...

Avatars and Signatures: Obsidian allows its users to associate a graphic image, or avatar, with their account. This image is displayed in posts underneath the user

[jodo kast 5]

I got warned too!! :D for saying a naughty word :">

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let me it starts with a b and ends with a e. "

[LadyCrimson]

 

Very specific ideas? I thought these were just common suggestions.

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Yes yes...I understand that. Nothing wrong with making suggestions, and as I said, I personally like some of them. I'm sure the mods here do too.

 

I think you missed my general point tho. Until you install and Admin a large forum yourself to find out what the program limitations and attempted policy enforcement is like, it's often hard to make realistic suggestions vs. emotional ones. That's all. *shrug

[LadyCrimson]

All images, regardless of text configuration, must fit within a perimeter of 125 pixels high by 600 pixels long

I had a PM from Fionavar once, just because I had one of like 150 instead of 125, and it got removed. This one it Alot bigger.

 

My complaint about many of the forum softwares I've investigated is that while you can set limitations to sizes and the like, often there is no option to really prevent people from linking to larger sized images, or to seperate certain definitions to only-sigs and not all images posted.

Often the image re-sizers do not work on hyperlinked images vs. direct uploads, or only resizes the physical dimmensions and not the KB size etc.

 

Some come pretty close to the kind of control I want tho...I'm about to purchase some licenses for a couple. :cool:

[jaguars4ever]

The only question I have with the mods is where the rest are? I havent seen anyone else than poor Fionavar and until a few months ago; Phosphor. These guys Antimatter and Hydrogen havent been logged in for a year or so :D

 

 

...there's that Crazy Joe in the KoTOR forums of course

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You must be confusing him with Adria Teksuni.

 

Hydrogen's right here!

 

 

"Wassup Hydro?"

 

:D

[Hydrogen]

These guys Antimatter and Hydrogen havent been logged in for a year or so :D

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I have definately been on more often than just last year. I have even closed threads in the past month.

 

 

In reporting posts directly to the mods I got no response.  That is why I made a public thread.  I've waited over a week for a response directly from a mod.  I did try that avenue first, respectfully.

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I rarely send messages to people when they use "report to moderator", but I do check out the issue. If I have a question as to why the thread was reported, then I will write to the person who has reported the thread.

 

So, umm, has this topic been discussed fully or are we just going to add a few pages of derailment before Fionavar or myself closes the topic.

[Gabrielle]

Me thinks the jolly green dragon is a bit trigger happy but at least he adds humor when it's LOCK DOWN.

[jodo kast 5]

Me thinks the jolly green dragon is a bit trigger happy but at least he adds humor when it's LOCK DOWN.

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What humor?

[alanschu]

Some AotC reference or something.

 

He seems a good sport, and not overtly powermongering while locking something down.

 

 

I find many people take a lock down of a thread they created to be some personal insult or something. Which reminds me that people should be less sensitive.

[Cantousent]

...And more conscientious. Sure, folks get their feelings hurt a tad too easily. That's fair. ...But some folks go out of their way to be nasty, and that's just not right, either.

 

It's hard to admit you've been a jerk and try to make ammends, I know. Still, if some folks should be less sensitive about themselves, then other folks should be more sensitive to everyone else.

 

Oh, but we're guys, right? So we have to prove how manly we are by being abrasive, abusive, and assinine. No, actually, we don't. If you don't like the word sensitive, try honorable or noble. Those are great RPG terms, aren't they? ...But before they enjoyed great status in RPGs, they were terms to describe the best of people. It doesn't make you less "manly" to think before you speak. It won't always work that way, I know from experience, but it's a damn sight better than trying to indulge your worst instincts.

 

CALL 1-800-DIAL-A-SERMON today!

[alanschu]

However, I feel that the "jerks" prey on people's sensitivities. If you're not so sensitive, the jerks don't bother you :D

[Cantousent]

True words of wisdom, alan.

[SteveThaiBinh]

However, I feel that the "jerks" prey on people's sensitivities.  If you're not so sensitive, the jerks don't bother you :D

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It's not for the sensitive to mask their sensitivities on the forum. It's for the jerks to rein in their jerkness. Don't blame the victim!

[alanschu]

I'm blaming both. But jerks prey on the sensitivities of others, and they aren't going to stop, because they are psychologically reinforced, via classical operant conditioning, to continue doing it, given they get pleasure from bugging the piss out of others.

 

 

It gets the point where you can't say anything without pissing someone off. And once you cater to the "victim," then other "victims" that weren't catered to get upset and press for their own voices to be heard.

 

Admittedly, I speak as a white male, so I haven't experienced large scale oppression. I do however feel sympathy to the institutional prejudices that exist in North America, and I can understand the merits of various affirmative action plans, as well as understand specifically what they are trying to accomplish.

 

 

I'm not asking for the sensitive to mask their sensitivities. I'm asking for them to not be stupid with their sensitivites. The biggest group that pisses me off are those that "champion" the sensitivities of others. For instance there was a hockey dispute where Don Cherry said "The only people that use visors are Europeans and the French." However, many MANY people, that do not qualify as Europeans nor French [Canadian] cried out to "protect" some people that didn't even need protecting. Ironically, upon further analysis, it turned out that Don Cherry was correct...the majority of people that wear visors were in fact European players and French players.

 

I hate it when other people, in their self-righteous journey, come out to protect someone (or some people) that don't need, nor want, protecting. I even remember when my neighbour was complaining about our busride home, which required about a 5 minute walk home for me (and about a 1 minute walk home for her). However, her "support" for her complaint was "Think about Allan, he has to walk so far" when in fact I didn't mind the walk. Crap like that pissed me off too!

 

Anyways, enough ranting for now.

[Kaftan Barlast]

I find it vcery curious that ' p e n i s ' is a banned word, even though it is the most scientific and accepted name for the male organ avilable. Meanwhile other "naughty"words such as

 

coitus

fellatio

cunnilingus

vagina

rectum

 

are still allowed. :D

 

 

p.s

 

And it seems Ive falsely accused Hydrogen of being inactive, my thesis is correct about Anitmatter though, his latest post was over a year ago (june 14, 2004).

[Lucius]

For instance there was a hockey dispute where Don Cherry said "The only people that use visors are Europeans and the French." 

Apparently they're also the only people that are smart, then... ::takes cover:: :ph34r:

[alanschu]

Hehehe point taken

 

 

Craig MacTavish was insane...dude played without a helmet up into the mid-90s